Blog Posts by Category - Atlantis HyperScale

The fall is off to a good start at Atlantis Computing! Coming off the heels of being named a strong performer in the Forrester Wave: Hyperconverged Infrastructure report, Atlantis makes its debut on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems with a placement in the niche category.

Historically the virtual workspace has challenges such as cost, performance, user-experience and complexity and PVS as part of that solution, was seen as difficult to manage. These days are over with developments within Citrix Provisioning Service to lower cost and increase performance benefit from flash, software defined storage and hyper converged infrastructure appliances. Atlantis Computing is leading in the modern virtual workspace with software defined storage (SDS) and hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions.

Previewed on the Atlantis Community blog in May, Fujitsu has now launched its new Virtual Client Services (VCS) Hyperscale Appliance as a managed service, opening up the benefits of desktop and application virtualization to companies of all sizes.

We are delighted to finally reveal a major milestone with the announcement at Citrix Synergy of the Fujitsu VCS HyperScale appliance as part of Fujitsu’s growing VCS portfolio. This new offering is a powerful collaborative effort between Fujitsu’s Server Group, Citrix, Atlantis Computing and Fujitsu Services.

If you haven’t already done so, take a look at our latest work with Howard Marks of DeepStorage, LLC. We worked with Howard to test Jetstress against one of our Atlantis HyperScale appliances, namely a CX-12 unit with default configuration. What we wanted to achieve was to see how much storage I/O performance the HyperScale platform could theoretically drive with an Exchange workload.

Here is a stencil set for your Atlantis USX and Atlantis HyperScale diagrams compatible with Microsoft Visio. The set contains icons for common components of Atlantis USX architectures in a range of exciting colours.

As part of our commitment to making available the latest processor models on Atlantis HyperScale hyperconverged appliances, we were able to test Intel’s newly released Xeon® E5-2600 v4 “Broadwell-EP” based processors starting with the Sysbench OLTP MySQL database. We took an existing HyperScale CX-12 that ships with Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 “Haswell” processors and replaced the CPUs with Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 processor, which are 2.6GHz (16C/32C) processor. With 16 cores of compute power per CPU and 8 CPUs in a 4-node 2 Rack Unit Atlantis HyperScale CX-12, we have 128 CPU cores at our disposal.

If you are like most IT leaders, you have heard of hyperconvergence but probably haven’t gotten your feet wet. Per a recent end user survey we conducted, only about 20% of respondents are currently actually using hyperconverged appliances.

Remote data centers take many forms such as remote offices, branch offices or micro-data centers. While remote offices or branch offices (ROBO) are small deployments such as bank branches, retail store or medical office, micro-data centers are relatively larger deployments such as factories, oil rigs or ships. Learn how Atlantis HyperScale now enables these sites.

“Be the change you wish to see in the world”, said Mahatma Gandhi guiding the arduous but fulfilling path to bringing a transformation in the world. Our world here at Atlantis is datacenter computing and the gist of this quote was very much our guiding principle for Atlantis HyperScale. Now, you can join us in this journey through HyperScale DRIVE, a series of fun race-themed events around Atlantis HyperScale for our partners, customers and prospects.

Over the last several years there have been a number of different technology innovations that have truly captivated my attention. Atlantis Computing’s ILIO product evolving into USX Software Defined Storage (SDS) is definitely one of these attention grabbing technologies! When I first learned about ILIO, I personally experienced the value software-based I/O acceleration and data reduction technologies can bring to Server Based Computing (SBC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments, for both Citrix and VMware End User Computing. This was definitely game changing in the way I positioned, architected, and built SBC/VDI virtualized environments.

In today’s modern workspace it all starts with the business consumer. Understand what the business consumer needs to be productive with the device and applications they love, while helping keep the company crown jewels secure is fundamental for every organization. Today’s modern datacenter solution is a vital component which powers the user workspace. Focus on business consumer, modern workspace, - datacenter, - and AnyCloud solutions to thrive is reality, now and in the future!

All-Flash Performance at $128/Desktop!

Atlantis HyperScale appliances come with effective capacities - the available capacity after in-line de-duplication that occurs when data is stored onto HyperScale Volumes. HyperScale Volumes always de-duplicate data first before writing data down to the local flash drives. This is what is known as in-line deduplication which is very different from post-de-duplication which will de-duplicate data after it is written down to disk.

Today marks the much anticipated launch of Atlantis HyperScale. In the build up to this date it’s been a busy time here at Atlantis HQ. One of the great things we’ve been doing is validating the new product with a VDI workload.